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Nonparametric analysis of intergenerational income mobility with application to the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2010 - Rev.
This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608250
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Parental income and children’s well-being and future success : an analysis of the SIPP matched to SSA earnings data
Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155976
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442547
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Growing Up : School, Family and Area Influences on Adolescents Later Life Chances
Gardiner, Karen - 2008
This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. For a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771283
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Measuring Income Risk
Gardiner, Karen - 2008
We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771288
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960s and early 1970s that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039967
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046176
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A nonparametric analysis of black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 335-379
Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic … status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility … traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756354
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458126
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A Nonparametric Analysis of Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011
Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent inter-racial gap in economic … status in the US. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility and the … transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184466